2013: The Marijuana Spring

Marijuana legalization for personal use is just the start. This vote also frees medical marijuana research, hemp farming, and a return to a hemp-based economy that will play a vital part in reversing the coming man-made environmental disaster.

Marijuana prohibition criminalizes the use of the safest, most versatile plant known to man.

Marijuana prohibition has stopped 75 years of human progress; it is an idea that will be thrown on the scrap heap of history.

All of this is about to change. The coming marijuana spring will be in big part a global shift to the simplicity of a cannabis-based resource economy for medicine, fuel, food and housing, plus many more products.

Widespread use of cannabis-based products will increase the wealth of any producing nation.

Have respect for this plant… yeah, it going to be that important to the human race as one answer to cool the earth. Sometimes a hero arrives in the form of a plant; cannabis can save this planet in a million ways.

In nine years I will be 70. I will probably die within the next 25 years or less and miss the worst of this event. I consider this post as a time capsule which I am sending into the future to my grandchildren and generations of children beyond that. I was thinking of you and I had your back.

You reading this, your children and my children are in harm’s way. Eighty percent of the U.S. population lives with 25 miles of an ocean. Imagine world sea levels six feet higher. Imagine a Sandy-type storm being the new normal.

Dear Carl, We celebrate your life and heed your message to future generations to use cannabis; message received![Karma Jello]

Nobody on earth escapes this, as wheat, corn and soybeans crops fail in all the world’s bread baskets as they did this past summer. Adding cannabis as a staple is the right thing to do. The right plant, at the right time to help to make a difference in the equation to help humans survive the environmental shit storm coming our way.

This Marijuana Spring increases the chances for a happy ending to this evolutionary challenge.

We as a society no longer have the luxury of not developing a cannabis-based economy where many of the common materials we use are cannabis-based.

The new Marijuana Spring majority vote gets it right by starting with the basics.

Americans will continue to vote in upcoming referendums that people have the liberty and personal freedom to grow and use the cannabis plant in all matters, to change their consciousness, be free from pain, heal themselves from sickness, grow and share a plant for survival.

Besides theses homeostatic euphoria effects of a good mood state, this plant can also provide for many other basic needs for survival that many people are unaware of due to the nation’s lockdown on scientific knowledge called marijuana prohibition.

Cannabis-based plant products are ready for prime time now. They have the potential to feed , house, and treat cancer, dementia, and all other matter of physical and brain aliments, helping the world’s population survive.

Anandamide and THC uptake side by side. This hookup instructs body cells to reset to normal. The ECS appears to be designed by evolution to work equally well with all cannabinoids, as if they were made by the body itself. This ECS activation as pictured above produces the effects in the healing cannabis wheel below.

The Chinese shaman tomb and its contents from 2,800 years ago. Almost 800 grams of cannabis was found inside the tomb in the basket beside his head

Shamans were using cannabis as a spiritual medicine and as an aid in religious/mystical transcendence 2,800 years ago. Before written language, divine cannabis knowledge was being passed down from generation to generation. Cannabis in all likelihood has had its roots deep in our human history for thousands of years. This use predates the Bible by 800 years.

Cannabis may have been humans’ earliest medicine, and the oldest religious sacrament!
Hemp is a “first foundation” plant which had to give humans an evolutionary advantage, allowing them to produce more offspring by producing food, fiber, fuel and raw building material. Cannabis use may have started the Neolithic revolution, the start of human civilization.

A leading theory of what drove the origins of human agriculture is called the Evolutionary/Intentionality Theory. This theory states that certain wild plants formed a symbiotic, co-evolutionary relationship with early humans. Above graphic: Introduction to Anthropology

Do you know that cannabis was so valued it started the War of 1812? When the British marched into Washington D.C. and burned the place to the ground, it was in retaliation for the U.S. stealing cannabis and burning Canadian cities down.

The U.S. 1914 10-dollar note attempted to showcase the wealth of our nation and to project faith in the buying power of the our currency by highlighting the partnership between cannabis farming and this raw material being sent to industry to produce cannabis-based products.

The 1914 U.S. Federal Reserve Note showing the wealth of the U.S. was a cannabis-based economy. We need to return to this standard.[Global Hemp]

Great societies depend on cannabis. The scene in this picture is only a little over 100 years ago. A true conservative idea built on successful capitalism, which we all can support, and where we all profit. Cannabis is a win-win for everybody, plus we save the planet!

The 1914 US Federal Reserve Note showing the wealth of the US was a cannabis-based economy. We need to return to this standard.

In the greater context, the marijuana spring signals the green light for hemp farming and hemp products to be directly grown and manufactured, creating green jobs worldwide.

Cannabis plant-based medicines and hemp-based farming to produce food, fuel and industrial products are thousands of years old. The cannabis plant is safe, time-tested, low tech, off the shelf, ready to use today, right now, by everybody on earth–including third-world people using only simple hand tools, as they fight to survive the coming great rise in sea levels.

Here is a plant that is hardy and drought-resistant. It will grow everywhere that it can, with different cultivation methods. It can provide medicine, food, shelter, fuel/oil, cloth, personal care and animal care products. It can sequester carbon, and you can still smoke it for spiritual enlightenment.

Theoretically, a bag of cannabis seeds, planted by a family working a five acre plot of land and using different cultivation methods could meet many of their basic living needs if they had to survive. Imagine that–the power of a handful of seeds sustaining the lives of humans.

Hemp products need to introduced everywhere into the U.S. and worldwide economies.

One hundred years from now, when we are all dead, history books will mark the passage of legalization of cannabis in 2012 as the moment when the world rediscovered this ancient plant that started civilization, and which now will once again save our sorry asses from the impending catastrophic warming of the earth by 4 to 10 degrees by 2100, and the addition of two billion more humans by 2050.

Why did marijuana prohibition start?

According to Popular Mechanics, “10,000 acres devoted to hemp will produce as much paper as 40,000 acres of average [forest] pulp land.”

William Hearst owned enormous timber acreage, land best suited for conventional pulp, so his interest in preventing the growth of hemp can be easily explained. Competition from hemp would have easily driven the Hearst paper-manufacturing company out of business and significantly lowered the value of his land. Herer even suggests popularizing the term “marijuana” was a strategy Hearst used in order to create fear in the American public. “The first step in creating hysteria was to introduce the element of fear of the unknown by using a word that no one had ever heard of before… ‘Marijuana.’ “

“DuPont’s involvement in the anti-hemp campaign can also be explained with great ease. At this time, DuPont was patenting a new sulfuric acid process for producing wood-pulp paper … According to the company’s own records, wood-pulp products ultimately accounted for more than 80 percent of all DuPont’s railroad car loadings for the next 50 years.”

Jack Herer:“I don’t know if cannabis gonna save the world, but I’ll tell you this… it’s the only thing that can.”[Free The Drugs]

Indeed it should be noted that “two years before the prohibitive hemp tax in 1937, DuPont developed a new synthetic fiber, nylon, which was an ideal substitute for hemp rope.”

The year after the tax was passed DuPont came out with rayon, which would have been unable to compete with the strength of hemp fiber or its economical process of manufacturing.”

DuPont’s point man was none other than Harry Anslinger… who was appointed to the FBN by Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, who was also chairman of the Mellon Bank, DuPont’s chief financial backer.

Anslinger’s relationship to Mellon wasn’t just political, he was also married to Mellon’s niece.

“It doesn’t take much to draw a connection between DuPont, Anslinger, and Mellon, and it’s obvious that all of these groups, including Hearst, had strong motivation to prevent the growth of the hemp industry.”

Former NYPD cop, former high school health teacher, the unstoppable Ron Marczyk, R.N., Toke Signals columnist

Editor’s note: Ron Marczyk is a retired high school health eduation teacher who taught Wellness and Disease Prevention, Drug and Sex Ed, and AIDS education to teens aged 13-17.

He also taught a high school International Baccalaureate psychology course. He taught in a New York City public school as a Drug Prevention Specialist.

He is a Registered Nurse with six years of ER/Critical Care experience in NYC hospitals, earned an M.S. in cardiac rehabilitation and exercise physiology, and worked as a New York City police officer for two years.

Currently he is focused on how evolutionary psychology explains human behavior.

To see all of Ron Marczyk’s “Worth Repeating” articles for Toke Signals, click here.

5 Comments

maxwood
on September 28, 2013 at 2:15 pm

(continued) bio-mass mound, finest material lowest, stalkbundles on top.
3. Seed with fast-rooting HEMP which will hold the mass together, prevent washing away; after a few years of hemp crops leaving rich litter topsoil for trees.
4. Seed with fast-growing invasive species like ailanthus, eucalyptus, cottonwood, willow etc. depending on climate, for DROUGHTPROOFING..
5. After a decade, seed with noble pines and hardwoods you want your children to live under.

maxwood
on September 28, 2013 at 2:11 pm

Staple crop yes. Also TRANSITIONAL: one of steps toward reforestation (but I say rieferforestation):
1. Form an International Brigade to clip, pick up deadwood, downed branches etc. from drought-stricken areas most in danger of billion dollar wildfires. For example, drought in Colorado weakened trees, bug infestation followed causing death, then huge wildfires in recent years, then this year’s colossal flooding.
2. Ship strong usable trunks, logs, poles, sticks to town to use for carpentry and manufacturing INSTEAD of live-harvested product, thus protecting trees (treeconomics). Haul dust, chips, shreds, rotted wood, bundled stalks to dry creekbeds, gullies, ravines etc., there deposit a

Well I give it 10 stars but it will only let me leave 1. What a great history article. I love the part about 300bc Japanese caves the most. Our government is greedy and stupid. i’m glad our day is here where cannabis prohibition will end worldwide.

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